Year 1919. Fate confronts the young idealist Osya with the Turkish swindler Ibrahim Bender. And honest Osya would never have contacted such a brazen and cunning con artist if they had not been united by an incredibly dangerous adventure - the hunt for a royal relic, which local bandits and white officers would also like to obtain. In a series of dizzying adventures, Osya is forced to learn from Ibrahim charming flattery, delicate deception, captivating blackmail, and ... brute force. In addition, he is in love with the purest girl in town of fatal beauty ...
This is how the portrait of the legendary great schemer and favorite of women, Ostap Bender-Zadunaisky, begins to take shape.